"That's the second person to tell me I have 10 minutes left.....that means I have 20 minutes!" I hope one day I can be that quick-witted while standing in front of a large audience.
14:25 The statement he makes is very true. Happened to me when I was 16. Was in a car accident that was clearly not my fault. Police report said it was not my fault. All fault placed on the other party. They hired a lawyer who harassed my family and I for a year saying they were going to sue us, that we had done wrong, that there was legal precedent we should give them money. Don't fall for this or take it to heart.
JT Al Oh yeah, you just go to court when summoned and tell the truth. People will hold lawyers above your head like it's a special perk, but if you didn't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry. They may try to perjure themselves hoping you won't call their bluff; but any amount of critical thinking will show their fault. Thus the case will fall through and you don't even need a lawyer to allege perjury.
What's funny is the "The Federal Zone" guy is quoting federal law which according to his book does not apply to areas outside of "federal" territories.
He explains this in the first letter with an absolute logic bomb. He says that he acts "under the laws of the United States of America without the 'United States' (federal government)" He is acting under federal law...but the federal government doesn't exist...but federal law still applies...all I can do is laugh.
@Paul _ i gotta be honest paul... you seem a little off... talking about communists and shit. where did you get that from? no. wait. i don't want to know. just go ahead and send me the paperwork on the gazillion dollar defamation suit you're filling on me lol.
A rocket scientist that thinks shared property is bad but is arguing in favour of a nation that uses the same concept. Wow. Must be really smart. Gotta have an IQ of 9 to work for NASA?
@@stickinthemud23 None, but that course of action still makes him a hypocrite. Not to mention that there's now documented proof that he is either criminally insane of profoundly stupid. Perhaps both.
@@lemax6865 I mis-wrote my comment. I was not intending to comment about that nut who sued, and you are absolutely right about him. He needs help. Administered in a room with padded walls.
He has a good point. Even in the UK this type of thing happens. I got a claim from a debt collection agency about a lot of money that they reckoned I owed. I found out that this was normal for these people and asked them to justify their request. They never contacted me again.
+Nicole K goddamn, collection agencies are the worst! just the worst! imagine having to work for one, or the kind of people that openly CHOOSE to work for one!
+ketchup143 That's true. However, in this economic climate there are many who will put aside their moral repugnance and do the job. People have to eat, even if the means to this end are to the detriment of the naive.
Had similar issues. Demanding further valudation - without proferring any additional info - usually works though, as you say. You might appreciate the story of LastWeekTonight buying a deal of "bad debt" in the US, mainly healthcare-related, then writing all of it off. Radio 4's In Business had a near-identical story some years back, where a crowd-sourced group did the same thing. Listening to the three-way chat between Peter Day, the crowd group rep & the guy from the debt collector's PR machine was priceless; the latter man was spitting nails at their business being undermined :) Debts need paying, but economic vampirism is deplorable.
In America, if a debt collector contacts you, you have 30 days to ask them to validate the debt. They cannot contact you again until they can prove the legitimacy of what you owe. Often if it's a debt collector, they've bought unpaid bills in bulk and don't receive much of the information. There's always a chance it will disappear and there's no reason not to try.
@@ketchup143 I worked in a collection agency in Canada for over 3+ years I actually enjoyed it. It helps to do the job using your brain and being helpful / understandable for the debtor.
This might be one of the best titles to a video on RUclips I have ever seen. And this guy presents it really well. This could have been a TED Talk. Hell, this could be a book. I love the idea that the guy looked at "The entire internet". Yeah, I'm pretty sure even in the later 90's-early 00's that would be a tall order.
26:46 Över a period of serveral months, time permitting, Plaintiff surveyed THE ENTIRE INTERNET" that shit made me bust out laughing, this guys that sued you is a complete nut case.
He was diagnosed as having a delusional disorder during a federal tax fraud case in 2013 and declared criminally incompetent. He was sent to a prison hospital in Missouri for court-ordered treatment and spent 4 months there before being declared incurably incompetent and released.
Damn, imagine being crazy enough that you kinda sorta get let off the hook for not paying taxes 😅 Maybe those sovereign citizen nutjobs are really accidentally playing 4d chess 🤦♂️😆
I do believe the the "Legal Mail" stamp referenced means that it is from a prison. When my brother send out legal mail from prison it has the same stamp on it so the mail room doesn't open it and read it. Just my thoughts being that the guy also had his bank account seized for failure to pay taxes.
@@circu111 True I thought about that but then again people are in and out of County jails regularly. He could have done a few months here and there and just been out of jail by the time the trial. I have seen people like him in there who have nothing else to do but attempt to sue or file various legal citations. They spend 10 minutes in the law library and suddenly everyones saul goodman.
Actually, don't inmates get the ability to defend (or sue) stuff in court unrelated to the reason they're in? Because that's something they should be able to. Of course not in a "just go there and come back" way, and of course somebody would need to check the application for being valid, so couldn't apply in this case, but "generally" I'd say this privilege exists.
@@Ulkomaalainen There is no validity check as no one would have the rights to view their legal mail other then their lawyer which in this case the guy was representing himself. Yes they have all the legal rights any normal person has in jail to sue.... defend etc.... Its to the point legal mail is regularly used to smuggle stuff into jail as no one really has the right to inspect packages completely so small amounts of contraband are smuggled in that way.
The advice to talk to people, to get others views, are so utterly critical! You need to consult friends and other people! You really do! I got sued by a scumbag on fabricated charges, I did not have supporting people around my, and that was tough. You have trouble defending yourself, alone. Wisdom: stand against bullies by having people with and around you, seek help and others will help. The collection of old stuff is history, and that is important and should never be allowed to be stopped due to "copyright" or other claims. Keep up the good work!
@@dushk0 Uh.... I guess his only option is to stop being a nutjob... If you have to use the laws of the thing which you claim has no authority, then you are acknowledging said authority. That's the problem with living in a place while pretending the laws don't apply to you. It doesn't actually work.
HOLY SHIT! This Guy Was Behind TextFiles? That Was Literally My Staple Of Websites As A Kid! Back On Dialup Sonnnn! Love It. Checked It Out About A Month Ago And Relived It. Can’t Believe It. Love It. Thank You For Making That Much Information Readily Available To Those Seeking Knowledge, Thank You My Friend!
That guy was arrested and thrown in jail for like 11 months and he wrote letters like the ones shown in the video daily and mailed them countless judges. They eventually released him just to shut him up. Lol
@@professorhaystacks6606 If you act crazy in jail they put you in a tiny room and blast the heat til you calm down lol. And they have psych specialized blocks in jail, its just full of schizophrenic homeless people.
I keep getting spam email from some company saying I have unpaid toll fines. I've never been across a toll bridge or road in my life! I've even received several online summons' to appear in federal court to answer said "charges". I've never showed up and no one has officially contacted me regarding this, so I'll keep ignoring. So far, they claim I owe over $100 grand! I owe over $100 grand for crossing toll-roads I never crossed. Sounds a little bat-shit crazy to me.
"Unpaid toll fines" is a well-known TeslaCrypt ransomware dropper email, so be careful. The "invoice" you get is actually a JS file for Windows Script Host, which will download and run TeslaCrypt.
Marty.R Woodcock no ...it's a racket that has been exposed. they claim they are not being paid with files like yours and are bankrupt. they the. sell to a friend of OBAMA. ironically they are anything but....it is a constant no st maker and the land and salvage alone are more than worth what they PAY. in 90 percent of the cases not even local authorities are notified it was sold to some foreigners
Those shovelware guys might have been profiteers, but I have to admit their shonky, leeching work was much appreciated amongst the large population of us in the early-mid 90s who had computers with CDROM drives and nearby stores with budget/shareware software racks, but no modem or other BBS/network access. Got a lot of useful or at least interesting software and somewhat diverting games out of them. However, you're welcome to your opinion, and I'm about as thankful for your own service with Textfiles as that's a site I've also got many hours of use out of. It's an exceptional piece of work and the time you put into it is appreciated.
This was a farked up scam attempt. Everyone, please don't give a penny to these scammers who use fear to steal from innocent people, their hard-earned money that we spent our precious time earning. It just encourages them. Maybe a little extreme, but it would be better to burn your money, then give it to these thieves. I'm glad Jason got the support and help needed to stand up to this insanity. Wish I could help.
Jesus Christ....so this is Jason. OMG I was always wondering how he's like back in the 90's!!! Amazing guy and thanks for your great "warez" back in the ol'skool days!!! :D
I purposely chose not to watch this DefCon talk because it sounded like clickbait, watched a playlist and happened to listen for a while until I noticed what video it was. I'm so damn glad I watched it, holy cow, so interesting and hilarious!
@@pwnmeisterage No, "official" films/series and so on pay licensing fees and royalties to the original creators, even if those creators for example just created a figure for a franchise like Star Trek. In the Next Generation series there was a character called Nicholas Lorcano (a star pilot whose father was a famous admiral and who got thrown out of Starfleet Academy), he was used in one episode and played by Robert Duncan McNeill. Originally, this character was supposed to return in Star Trek Voyager, but the creators of VOY would have had to pay royalties to the creator of Nicholas Locarno every time they used the character, so they decided against using him. Instead they created Tom Paris, a star pilot whose father was a famous admiral and who got thrown out of Starfleet Academy. And he was played by Robert Duncan McNeill.
"It was 1997, a slightly different feel to the Internet" that made me laugh it was more like another world in a galaxy far, far away. Great video, marvelous story.
We're citing a federal law for copyright violation of a book that says federal laws are illegitimate! "Dear Mister Moonbat, the law you are attempting to enforce is not actually valid, you can read all about it in this book "The Federal Zone", written by "Paul Andrew Mitchel"
Really, REALLY good talk. It is TRUE. Bullies (legal ones abusing the law itself) WILL do all they can to scare you, to break until you give up and pay. Awesome presentation.
I've caught up. I hated the old me. Then I hated the a-little-while-ago me. Then I hated current me. Now I only hate future me. Everything else seems to be okay now. It's weird.
In many countries, the Freedom of Information act is misused by these sorts of people to extract money when documents are not delivered on time (which is tough when thousands of documents are requested)
A cloud is just a remote server you're uploading data onto... Whether said data is privately available or not doesn't change what it essentially is. :)
qazwsx edcrfv No, FTP is an FTP service. To keep things simple, cloud computing is storing and accessing data and/or programs over LAN or a WAN. How you access them depends on specific needs. FTP would be ONE way to access the data, another way would be SSH, or using HTTP (via your browser) to use a program stored on the cloud, etc.
at first it felt like some advertising for his site, but after about 5 minutes of watching I couldn't stop laughing. Great talk and great site. I found a few goodies I thought lost to the void.
Honestly, despite his bombastic attitude when presenting, well - anything... Jason is actually a really down-to-earth, kind-hearted guy. I had the incredible opportunity to go have dinner with him at this one bar in Stockholm some years back when he was in town to give a talk, and it was honestly one of the most moving evenings of my life. For the record, and I give him no end of credit for this, dude doesn't drink; I had my fair share of beers, while he was happily pulling on a Coca-Cola, just expounding on story after story. Amazing dude.
Apparently, according to his website/resume, Mitchell is planning on upping his patent trolling game in the near future: Present Inventor and Provisional U.S. Patent Holder: high-speed solid-state data storage technologies
www.supremelaw.org/cc/aol/index.htm There are later docs from Mitchell in relation to the case. He even wrote a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations!! :D
holy shit. That list of documents just goes from batshit crazy to entirely new levels. At the very bottom, there's a criminal accusation of himself towards some people for the supreme court... at least that's what I thought until I noticed that the people accused are the supreme court judges themselves!
Thank you RUclips for recommending this absolute fucking legendary tale a merely 8 fucking years too late, granted that i only got internet in 2017 but that still means 2 whole years of everyday RUclips usage where you could have recommended it to me, i wonder what other amazing stuff i still havent been recommended
It comes from the Banach-tarski gemoetric paradox, which basically tells you that you can, from a single object, create 2 other objects identical to the first one. THis is a REALLY simplified explaination of it,. so just google the thing. Like taking a rubik cube, dissasemble it, and then create 2 cubes identical to the first one.
From a single instance of the possibility of triple damage payment, he instead created 2 instances of triple damage payment, thus sixfold instead of the normal triple (The smashed 3 eggs, but somehow ended with 6 eggs jason says in the video)
Funnily enough I've run up against the milder, more subtle form of this kind of crazy before in my career and, whilst it wasn't anything quite as mad as demanding $2bn, I can certainly vouch for the advice being genuine - talk it over with other people and seek qualified help if it starts getting bad (they can only tell you to go away after all). In my case having a union to help out on the professional side, and grounded friends and family to act as a sounding board and check that I wasn't actually the one going mad was a great help.
Wow, this was quite informative! Not to say I've been served or had any worries of being so, but this really paints the picture of what I had already known; this country has seriously degenerated into mushy, puddy-like figures who cry at the first sign of danger or mistreatment, who become petrified at the slightest confrontation, and cause other more strongly willed people to lose their cool!
LOOOL back dialing up BBS systems I read ONE PIECE OF EROTICA, just to see what & why the hell people had this stuff "Text Porn?" so I read it, and I was like wtf? but I was gripped cause it was ridiculous & I can't stop laughing cause I swear it was the same one, and I haven't thought about it since omg lol.
wait.... he thinks pepole should not have to fallow any laws and the goverment should hold no power? then how can he sue for copyright? does he not understatend that by his own "laws/rules" you are 100% fair to use his matrile.
Thank you! It was very informative, entertaining, and a good eye-open, especially for osmeone in my age and personality :P I wonder HOW MANY hours you spent reading and studying things from this lunatic, you clearly did your research, where other people may had slipped over. I wonder how you got your help on a case like this one
Jason this is a great story on so many levels! I'm glad the case was thrown out. BTW, as you probably know by now, "With Prejudice" means that the case is final and no refiling can be made. "Without Prejudice" means that the case can be refiled. Just sayin' ...
The funny thing is that, in 2019, this level of crazy is our new normal. It's now perfectly acceptable to redefine things as "your truth", and ignore (or cancel) realities that make you uncomfortable.
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"That's the second person to tell me I have 10 minutes left.....that means I have 20 minutes!" I hope one day I can be that quick-witted while standing in front of a large audience.
Hat tip
Dude was quick on his feet lol
14:25 The statement he makes is very true. Happened to me when I was 16. Was in a car accident that was clearly not my fault. Police report said it was not my fault. All fault placed on the other party. They hired a lawyer who harassed my family and I for a year saying they were going to sue us, that we had done wrong, that there was legal precedent we should give them money. Don't fall for this or take it to heart.
JT Al Oh yeah, you just go to court when summoned and tell the truth. People will hold lawyers above your head like it's a special perk, but if you didn't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry. They may try to perjure themselves hoping you won't call their bluff; but any amount of critical thinking will show their fault. Thus the case will fall through and you don't even need a lawyer to allege perjury.
lol just go no contact :^)
What's funny is the "The Federal Zone" guy is quoting federal law which according to his book does not apply to areas outside of "federal" territories.
What if he lived in DC?
He explains this in the first letter with an absolute logic bomb. He says that he acts "under the laws of the United States of America without the 'United States' (federal government)"
He is acting under federal law...but the federal government doesn't exist...but federal law still applies...all I can do is laugh.
I just skip the whole sovereign citizen nonsense and get straight to the part where I believe the federal government should be mostly abolished
@@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai Then he has to pay income tax there.
he's a sovereign citizen, he's not quoting federal law, he's MOLESTING federal law.
"Vexatious litigant" = you've abused the legal system, and thus are barred from filing any further civil actions without a prior okay from a judge.
@Paul _ Are you THE Paul??
@Paul _ thanks for answering the question for us lol
@Paul _ thats about verbatim the response i was expecting. you dont disappoint.
@Paul _ i gotta be honest paul... you seem a little off... talking about communists and shit. where did you get that from? no. wait. i don't want to know. just go ahead and send me the paperwork on the gazillion dollar defamation suit you're filling on me lol.
A rocket scientist that thinks shared property is bad but is arguing in favour of a nation that uses the same concept. Wow. Must be really smart. Gotta have an IQ of 9 to work for NASA?
You owe me 2 trillion dollars. Or, pay me $25, right now, and we even.
I can't tell if this guy is the Slenderman or if he's a delusional heroin addict who ran out of people to steal from.
so I owe you $25 with millions % interest
@@shabbyken2578 What other recourse does he have?
@@stickinthemud23 None, but that course of action still makes him a hypocrite. Not to mention that there's now documented proof that he is either criminally insane of profoundly stupid. Perhaps both.
@@lemax6865 I mis-wrote my comment. I was not intending to comment about that nut who sued, and you are absolutely right about him. He needs help. Administered in a room with padded walls.
This whole setup is reminiscent of the current abuse of RUclips's copyright claim system
How do you know the cuckoo isnt working for RUclips...
5year old comment on an even older video, and it's more true than ever even beyond RUclips 😩
I don't know how I landed on this video, but I really like this guy.
Peter Brill dat algorithm
SgtKOnyx oh God am I so boring someone thinks I'm a bot? Is it finally happening?
Peter Brill no, RUclips just makes more money off of this video than others. It's why you see it
Oh no busy youtube algorithm just crazy these days so nobody knows why anything is popular now lol bai
You liked the yeh meme so I can see you have atleast somewhat explored youtube and thus are 1 of us. Cool
RUclips why NOW. I NEED TO KNOW. WHY NOW MUST I WATCH THIS
LOL. True story. Happened to me. Watched the whole thing. No regrets.
He has a few videos online and they are all great
bc its good
same here, we really need to crack this one, gang
watched 30 cars videos in a row, makes perfect sense that this is in my recommended
The website is still up!
Flamo353 208.86.224.90 Nulled it rn LOL !!!!!!
Not anymore :(
+MechV I was just on it xD
Loz Jockey It's some gardener, not the guy described in the video. Am I looking at the wrong paulandrewmitchell.com?
Flamo353 That's confusing.. why is it about a gardener now?
"Now its huge, I provide close to a Terabyte of data" ....man we have come a long way
Thats exactly what I was thinking, I have more storage than that in this PC.
@@steve88luv But not in textfiles and pdfs, i guess.
1Tb of text files is more than a lifetime of reading! It is huge lol
a single A4 paper full of text (size 10) is about 5 kiloBytes of data, so that's about 200 million pages.
@@steve88luv I have more storage than this on a micro sd card
He has a good point. Even in the UK this type of thing happens. I got a claim from a debt collection agency about a lot of money that they reckoned I owed. I found out that this was normal for these people and asked them to justify their request. They never contacted me again.
+Nicole K goddamn, collection agencies are the worst! just the worst! imagine having to work for one, or the kind of people that openly CHOOSE to work for one!
+ketchup143 That's true. However, in this economic climate there are many who will put aside their moral repugnance and do the job. People have to eat, even if the means to this end are to the detriment of the naive.
Had similar issues.
Demanding further valudation - without proferring any additional info - usually works though, as you say.
You might appreciate the story of LastWeekTonight buying a deal of "bad debt" in the US, mainly healthcare-related, then writing all of it off.
Radio 4's In Business had a near-identical story some years back, where a crowd-sourced group did the same thing. Listening to the three-way chat between Peter Day, the crowd group rep & the guy from the debt collector's PR machine was priceless; the latter man was spitting nails at their business being undermined :)
Debts need paying, but economic vampirism is deplorable.
In America, if a debt collector contacts you, you have 30 days to ask them to validate the debt. They cannot contact you again until they can prove the legitimacy of what you owe. Often if it's a debt collector, they've bought unpaid bills in bulk and don't receive much of the information. There's always a chance it will disappear and there's no reason not to try.
@@ketchup143 I worked in a collection agency in Canada for over 3+ years I actually enjoyed it. It helps to do the job using your brain and being helpful / understandable for the debtor.
This might be one of the best titles to a video on RUclips I have ever seen. And this guy presents it really well. This could have been a TED Talk. Hell, this could be a book.
I love the idea that the guy looked at "The entire internet". Yeah, I'm pretty sure even in the later 90's-early 00's that would be a tall order.
If you google the guy's name, the stories are insane, he's like the legal world's equivalent of Chris-chan
26:46 Över a period of serveral months, time permitting, Plaintiff surveyed THE ENTIRE INTERNET" that shit made me bust out laughing, this guys that sued you is a complete nut case.
A "Vexatious Litigant"
He was diagnosed as having a delusional disorder during a federal tax fraud case in 2013 and declared criminally incompetent. He was sent to a prison hospital in Missouri for court-ordered treatment and spent 4 months there before being declared incurably incompetent and released.
Damn, imagine being crazy enough that you kinda sorta get let off the hook for not paying taxes 😅
Maybe those sovereign citizen nutjobs are really accidentally playing 4d chess 🤦♂️😆
Probably one of the funniest yet most informative things I've listened too for months now. Kudos to you sir for being entertaining and educational.
I do believe the the "Legal Mail" stamp referenced means that it is from a prison. When my brother send out legal mail from prison it has the same stamp on it so the mail room doesn't open it and read it. Just my thoughts being that the guy also had his bank account seized for failure to pay taxes.
Exactly what I was thinking esp when he spoke about the forwarding agency and stuff and no returns.
@@seditt5146 He also showed up in court to sue him, which is not a privilege inmates generally receive.
@@circu111 True I thought about that but then again people are in and out of County jails regularly. He could have done a few months here and there and just been out of jail by the time the trial. I have seen people like him in there who have nothing else to do but attempt to sue or file various legal citations. They spend 10 minutes in the law library and suddenly everyones saul goodman.
Actually, don't inmates get the ability to defend (or sue) stuff in court unrelated to the reason they're in? Because that's something they should be able to. Of course not in a "just go there and come back" way, and of course somebody would need to check the application for being valid, so couldn't apply in this case, but "generally" I'd say this privilege exists.
@@Ulkomaalainen There is no validity check as no one would have the rights to view their legal mail other then their lawyer which in this case the guy was representing himself. Yes they have all the legal rights any normal person has in jail to sue.... defend etc.... Its to the point legal mail is regularly used to smuggle stuff into jail as no one really has the right to inspect packages completely so small amounts of contraband are smuggled in that way.
What get's put on the internet stays on the internet.
True true.
What the hell is that apostrophe there for?
Fennecbutt I don't know.
***** Here we go again. I am fine with him correcting despite his attitude.
***** That makes sense.
The advice to talk to people, to get others views, are so utterly critical! You need to consult friends and other people! You really do!
I got sued by a scumbag on fabricated charges, I did not have supporting people around my, and that was tough. You have trouble defending yourself, alone.
Wisdom: stand against bullies by having people with and around you, seek help and others will help.
The collection of old stuff is history, and that is important and should never be allowed to be stopped due to "copyright" or other claims. Keep up the good work!
I found Jason Scott really interesting to listen to and I love stories like this. I am off to find any other videos by him.
So did you find any?
RUN ER there's quite a few
Wait, he's a sovereign citizen who believes that federal law only applies in DC & on military bases & tried to use federal laws to sue you?
Yep, and his logic is he uses the "laws of the United States without the 'United States' (federal government)". Wrap your head around that one.
@@jamescarmody4713 My head has wrapped around itself and now it is condensed into a black hole.
What are his other options?
@@dushk0 Uh.... I guess his only option is to stop being a nutjob...
If you have to use the laws of the thing which you claim has no authority, then you are acknowledging said authority. That's the problem with living in a place while pretending the laws don't apply to you. It doesn't actually work.
That's how most SovCit's are. Laws don't apply to them but they apply to people I don't like and want to use it against them.
this guy is fucking entertaining, i love him
+andyphil666 The audience seemed so dull! He made a lot of jokes in silence
MistahJuicyBoy or they yelled out things
Elia Meyer doesn't that sum up existence?
Autoplay in 2019 did me a confuse when the guy said “it’s 2009 and I have to ask”.
HOLY SHIT!
This Guy Was Behind TextFiles?
That Was Literally My Staple Of Websites As A Kid! Back On Dialup Sonnnn!
Love It. Checked It Out About A Month Ago And Relived It.
Can’t Believe It.
Love It.
Thank You For Making That Much Information Readily Available To Those Seeking Knowledge, Thank You My Friend!
I'm not a DEFCON person but this guy is a good speaker and entertaining.
>I have 10 million 4chan threads
The easiest possession of child pornography conviction the Feds will ever get
I have no idea why this popped up on my feed but I'm very happy I spent all 32 minutes watching it
That guy was arrested and thrown in jail for like 11 months and he wrote letters like the ones shown in the video daily and mailed them countless judges. They eventually released him just to shut him up. Lol
That's normally how they get the "Legal Mail" stamp, also. Sent from jail or prison.
So what I'm hearing is I can get out of jail early if I send crazy letters?
@@professorhaystacks6606 You might end up in the looney bin, so technically yes, you'd be out of prison.
Source?
@@professorhaystacks6606 If you act crazy in jail they put you in a tiny room and blast the heat til you calm down lol. And they have psych specialized blocks in jail, its just full of schizophrenic homeless people.
I keep getting spam email from some company saying I have unpaid toll fines. I've never been across a toll bridge or road in my life! I've even received several online summons' to appear in federal court to answer said "charges". I've never showed up and no one has officially contacted me regarding this, so I'll keep ignoring. So far, they claim I owe over $100 grand! I owe over $100 grand for crossing toll-roads I never crossed. Sounds a little bat-shit crazy to me.
"Unpaid toll fines" is a well-known TeslaCrypt ransomware dropper email, so be careful. The "invoice" you get is actually a JS file for Windows Script Host, which will download and run TeslaCrypt.
Marty.R Woodcock just spam it
Marty.R Woodcock
No legal documents of any kind are sent through email unless you are requesting a copy (just a simple copy).
Marty.R Woodcock sound like gone and fucked up, this is 2017. they can and will charge toll fees over the internet. welcome to america
Marty.R Woodcock no ...it's a racket that has been exposed. they claim they are not being paid with files like yours and are bankrupt. they the. sell to a friend of OBAMA. ironically they are anything but....it is a constant no st maker and the land and salvage alone are more than worth what they PAY. in 90 percent of the cases not even local authorities are notified it was sold to some foreigners
Hope everyone realizes that this is still relevant today and that this can happen to them for various legal reasons.
Those shovelware guys might have been profiteers, but I have to admit their shonky, leeching work was much appreciated amongst the large population of us in the early-mid 90s who had computers with CDROM drives and nearby stores with budget/shareware software racks, but no modem or other BBS/network access. Got a lot of useful or at least interesting software and somewhat diverting games out of them.
However, you're welcome to your opinion, and I'm about as thankful for your own service with Textfiles as that's a site I've also got many hours of use out of. It's an exceptional piece of work and the time you put into it is appreciated.
This was better than some standup specials I've seen. What a journey
I will be watching every single minute of Jason Scott content I can find after finding his incredible DefCon talks.
This was a farked up scam attempt. Everyone, please don't give a penny to these scammers who use fear to steal from innocent people, their hard-earned money that we spent our precious time earning. It just encourages them. Maybe a little extreme, but it would be better to burn your money, then give it to these thieves. I'm glad Jason got the support and help needed to stand up to this insanity. Wish I could help.
Why give the thieves the money after it's been burned?
So when someone's asking me for several billion dollar for some made up nonsense I shouldn't give him the money?
Good to know!
Such a good talk. I love it when smart people have something interesting to say and are good at saying it
This is such a great story that I rewatch this video every few months.
Was happy to see that the site he mentions at the end is still online in all its HTTP glory
Jesus Christ....so this is Jason. OMG I was always wondering how he's like back in the 90's!!! Amazing guy and thanks for your great "warez" back in the ol'skool days!!! :D
I purposely chose not to watch this DefCon talk because it sounded like clickbait, watched a playlist and happened to listen for a while until I noticed what video it was. I'm so damn glad I watched it, holy cow, so interesting and hilarious!
That's some world-class crazy right there.
you archived years worth of 4chan?
intense. i need that.
So....you can get sued for fan fiction? Wasn't 50 shades a fanfic of twilight?
Names were changed.
Vandoeun Long lol 50 shades of shit was
"Official film/series/canon" is really just "expensive fan film" when you get down to it.
@@pwnmeisterage No, "official" films/series and so on pay licensing fees and royalties to the original creators, even if those creators for example just created a figure for a franchise like Star Trek. In the Next Generation series there was a character called Nicholas Lorcano (a star pilot whose father was a famous admiral and who got thrown out of Starfleet Academy), he was used in one episode and played by Robert Duncan McNeill. Originally, this character was supposed to return in Star Trek Voyager, but the creators of VOY would have had to pay royalties to the creator of Nicholas Locarno every time they used the character, so they decided against using him. Instead they created Tom Paris, a star pilot whose father was a famous admiral and who got thrown out of Starfleet Academy. And he was played by Robert Duncan McNeill.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Licensing fees and royalties cost money. Part of what makes it an "expensive fan film".
"It was 1997, a slightly different feel to the Internet" that made me laugh it was more like another world in a galaxy far, far away.
Great video, marvelous story.
Should have played him at his own game. Wrote "Accepted for Value" on it and sent it back to him.
Anyone else get this in their recommended in 2019?
Edit: over 100 likes!!! My life has been fulfilled thank you so much everybody!
Algorithms working their wonders
This is glorious, I'm not mad it does xD
yup had a good laugh though.
Yup, and enjoyed it immensely..
Yup. Idk why I clicked. It's 3:30 in the morning and I have work at 7:30. Wtf am I doing?
We're citing a federal law for copyright violation of a book that says federal laws are illegitimate!
"Dear Mister Moonbat, the law you are attempting to enforce is not actually valid, you can read all about it in this book "The Federal Zone", written by "Paul Andrew Mitchel"
Really, REALLY good talk.
It is TRUE. Bullies (legal ones abusing the law itself) WILL do all they can to scare you, to break until you give up and pay.
Awesome presentation.
Well this is just a reminder that I'm gonna hate my 15 year old fucked up self when I'm 40
Mike Hawk You know, I haven't majorly regretted saying or doing anything so far. It will be interesting to see if that changes in a couple decades.
Mike Hawk you probably won't even remember what anon is you lol
Look on the bright side, you might not live that long.
I've caught up. I hated the old me. Then I hated the a-little-while-ago me. Then I hated current me.
Now I only hate future me. Everything else seems to be okay now. It's weird.
Mike Hawk I hate the dead me. btw I was never alive
Textfiles.com taught me about early hack/phreak culture and seriously steered the course of my life. For that I am ever thankful.
In many countries, the Freedom of Information act is misused by these sorts of people to extract money when documents are not delivered on time (which is tough when thousands of documents are requested)
Why this was recommended to me I'll never know, but I have to watch more of this guy
So he basically was the first cloud service provider :)
He made more of a public archive, a cloud service is private, anyone can view an archive
A cloud is just a remote server you're uploading data onto... Whether said data is privately available or not doesn't change what it essentially is. :)
Ray Guzman Cloud is just a graphical ftp: service. Its like www. means nothing either.
qazwsx edcrfv No, FTP is an FTP service. To keep things simple, cloud computing is storing and accessing data and/or programs over LAN or a WAN. How you access them depends on specific needs. FTP would be ONE way to access the data, another way would be SSH, or using HTTP (via your browser) to use a program stored on the cloud, etc.
Ray Guzman You know Melvin? lol
Thanks for showing me where all those awesome old BBS text files went. Your'e awesome!
at first it felt like some advertising for his site, but after about 5 minutes of watching I couldn't stop laughing. Great talk and great site. I found a few goodies I thought lost to the void.
Well what would he really be advertising? He doesn't even have ad's on the website so what does he have to gain/profit?
@@SNCRLYTYLER very true dude, but Jason didn't mention that until about 5mins in I think (or am I wrong?) which kinda matches the OP's timeline.
Honestly, despite his bombastic attitude when presenting, well - anything... Jason is actually a really down-to-earth, kind-hearted guy. I had the incredible opportunity to go have dinner with him at this one bar in Stockholm some years back when he was in town to give a talk, and it was honestly one of the most moving evenings of my life. For the record, and I give him no end of credit for this, dude doesn't drink; I had my fair share of beers, while he was happily pulling on a Coca-Cola, just expounding on story after story. Amazing dude.
Apparently, according to his website/resume, Mitchell is planning on upping his patent trolling game in the near future:
Present Inventor and Provisional U.S. Patent Holder: high-speed solid-state data storage technologies
Objectively one of the most fascinating, informative, and hilarious talks I have seen. Ever. EVER!!!
The paul andrew mitchell website is now a landscaping website which is very random! lol
Damn, was not expecting that xD
I beleive this is the guy lol www.supremelaw.org/authors/mitchell/resume.htm
www.supremelaw.org/cc/aol/index.htm
There are later docs from Mitchell in relation to the case. He even wrote a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations!! :D
holy shit. That list of documents just goes from batshit crazy to entirely new levels. At the very bottom, there's a criminal accusation of himself towards some people for the supreme court... at least that's what I thought until I noticed that the people accused are the supreme court judges themselves!
...? "7292 CHECKMATE!, (January 14, 2004 A.D.) (.doc)"
Thank you RUclips for recommending this absolute fucking legendary tale a merely 8 fucking years too late, granted that i only got internet in 2017 but that still means 2 whole years of everyday RUclips usage where you could have recommended it to me, i wonder what other amazing stuff i still havent been recommended
Great speech!
Great advice to share that with your friends, because that sure is scary, many people might settle because of the scare!
This is the best video on the internet. Period.
26:32 banach tarski lawsuit
what is banach tarski lawsuit
It comes from the Banach-tarski gemoetric paradox, which basically tells you that you can, from a single object, create 2 other objects identical to the first one. THis is a REALLY simplified explaination of it,. so just google the thing. Like taking a rubik cube, dissasemble it, and then create 2 cubes identical to the first one.
I don't understand what this concept has to do with a lawsuit or the video
From a single instance of the possibility of triple damage payment, he instead created 2 instances of triple damage payment, thus sixfold instead of the normal triple (The smashed 3 eggs, but somehow ended with 6 eggs jason says in the video)
Ah, thank you for the explanation
Love it, stumbled on it today and couldn't stop watching...no I'm not paying you 25$
Nothing is forgotten. The Internet is eternal
Funnily enough I've run up against the milder, more subtle form of this kind of crazy before in my career and, whilst it wasn't anything quite as mad as demanding $2bn, I can certainly vouch for the advice being genuine - talk it over with other people and seek qualified help if it starts getting bad (they can only tell you to go away after all). In my case having a union to help out on the professional side, and grounded friends and family to act as a sounding board and check that I wasn't actually the one going mad was a great help.
10 + 10 = 20.
I love this guy XD
Uatemydoodle 10 + 10 + 20 = 40
I guess that's correct. You can't shorthand things to a point where meaning is lost/changed.
MawilliX Wow dude epic math freestyle
I stumbled across this not knowing what it is at all but for some reason kept listening to all of it....and was entertained.
This loon later went on to become the head of the RIAA.
(not really.)
Was he not the founder and got fired for being crazy?
Record Industry Association of America?
So happy to see the USENIX "computing systems" get scanned.
he went to prison a couple years ago for this crap
"I have 10 milion threads of 4chan" - I'm so wet right now
LOL, very smart man and very entertaining to watch. Glad he did something with his life and it was successful.
I feel like nobody thanks christiaan for the amount of defcon content he uploads, kudos to you!
The video has been viewed over 833 thousand times. He should really sue you for another couple billion dollars. Including 7% interest of course :D
This is the first recommended video by youtube that I actually love.
I fucking love how this guy explains things XD
This guy runs textfiles, instantly has my respect, besides that he is speaking at DEFCON.
Paul Andrew Mitchell is a Sovereign Citizen.
AKA Crazy person
Google Plus Blows Chunks we all are but only as a collective collectively
Wow, this was quite informative! Not to say I've been served or had any worries of being so, but this really paints the picture of what I had already known; this country has seriously degenerated into mushy, puddy-like figures who cry at the first sign of danger or mistreatment, who become petrified at the slightest confrontation, and cause other more strongly willed people to lose their cool!
that was awesome and so helpful and encouraging. for the little guy doing cool things this can be a very real situation in my experience.
1:00 "It's 2009, just a show of hands who knows what a computer bulletin board is?"
Wow. haha
plz repost in 720p
You can't
lets see
game'z 4 dayz No, you cant
"Plz re-upload video recorded in 480p and magically make it 720p, thanks"
Cubit lol I tried it but it dont work
A terabyte was massive in 2009. Now a terabyte is barely anything. How times change, so fast...
I just have to wonder if this video will eventually end up on his site.
A classic i keep coming back to each and every-time love it.
I wonder if he sued RUclips.
7:10 - Shout out to the level of enthusiasm on the guy who shouted out "incredibles 2"
This has to be the most funny talk of DEFCON ever! (Y)
How-to deficate at defcon no one shat on leagalease for shitheads
Muney for NUTHIN CHICKS for free...
Four outta five dentist that chew gum RECCOMEND DMT
Accepted for VALUE setoff
LOOOL back dialing up BBS systems I read ONE PIECE OF EROTICA, just to see what & why the hell people had this stuff "Text Porn?" so I read it, and I was like wtf? but I was gripped cause it was ridiculous & I can't stop laughing cause I swear it was the same one, and I haven't thought about it since omg lol.
wait.... he thinks pepole should not have to fallow any laws and the goverment should hold no power? then how can he sue for copyright? does he not understatend that by his own "laws/rules" you are 100% fair to use his matrile.
+theendofit Your expecting logic for a nut job moonbat?
theendofit Sovereigns don't follow laws they do like, do the ones the like
I am so happy that the presenter uploaded all of moonbat's rantings and ravings to it's own site.... that is amazing!
Thank you!
It was very informative, entertaining, and a good eye-open, especially for osmeone in my age and personality :P
I wonder HOW MANY hours you spent reading and studying things from this lunatic, you clearly did your research, where other people may had slipped over. I wonder how you got your help on a case like this one
Jason this is a great story on so many levels! I'm glad the case was thrown out. BTW, as you probably know by now, "With Prejudice" means that the case is final and no refiling can be made. "Without Prejudice" means that the case can be refiled. Just sayin' ...
The funny thing is that, in 2019, this level of crazy is our new normal. It's now perfectly acceptable to redefine things as "your truth", and ignore (or cancel) realities that make you uncomfortable.
Jason Scott is fucking awesome. His blogpost “Freedom, Justice and a Disturbingly Gaping Ass” should be a mandatory read for anyone on the Internet.
And I thought Digital Homicide was bad
now we know where Digital Homicide got the idea from lol
Best description of a vexatious litigant ever.
Oddly enough I want to check out the crazy guy's book
Just remember to give Paul his $25 in unmarked and used bills and avoid telling the Feds as they are "all in on it" :)
Amazingly enjoyable to watch. Gotta go to textfiles for some nostalgia...
LOL, the BArdex Superhero looks like a slam-dunk win for infringement of Pixar's Mr. Incredible image.
It looks like Mr. Incredible merged with The Flash
Love This!
You Owe $97 million... but... I will settle for $25 until "Next Tuesday"
"Sovereign Citizen"